When Did Nicole Kidman Turn Into Patsy Stone?

The making of Natsy Stoneman.

Nicole Kidman is literally transforming into Patsy Stone — from the '90s British TV show Absolutely Fabulous — before our very eyes, and no one is talking about it. Until now, that is!

In case you are unfamiliar with Pasty Stone, she's the mooching, alcoholic, drug-addicted, narcissistic, label-obsessed, name-dropping, chain-smoking best friend of the show's star, Edina Monsoon. Absolutely Fabulous follows Edina and Patsy as they live their fabulously shallow and vapid lives in a haze of self-delusion and self-medication. Edina is horrible (horribly fabulous, that is) and Patsy is pure trash (in the best was possible).

Now, as exhibits A through H will show, there is substantial evidence to suggest that Nicole Kidman is slowly transforming into Patsy, both in her movies and IRL. The striking facial and stylistic similarities between the two are uncanny.

Exhibit A: Nicole at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15 giving all kinds of Patsy Stone-realness.

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Exhibit B: The verisimilitude between these two headbands cannot be a mere coincidence.

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Exhibit C: Clearly, Nicole knew her picture was about to be taken and decided to channel Patsy for a little face-spiration.

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Exhibit D: The pink coat and sunglasses Nicole wears as Grace Kelly in the film Grace of Monaco are clearly the high to Patsy's pink-blanket-wrap-and-sunglasses low on the set of Absolutely Fabulous.

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Exhibit E: Has there ever been a more perfect before and after?

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I blame the degree of Nicole's transition on 2012's The Paperboy. Although she was clearly on the path to Patsy-dom long before filming began, the undeniable similarities between her character, Charlotte Bless, and Patsy Stone probably only served to hasten her transformation.

Exhibit F: That's Patsy on the left, but one could easily be forgiven for thinking it was Nicole, seen on set on the right, before she left her trailer.

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Exhibit G: Even Patsy's freaked out by this one.

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Exhibit H: Nicole, in a scene from The Paperboy, uttering a phrase that has no doubt crossed aging groupie Patsy's lips more than a few times.

There's no telling exactly where or when Nicole's transformation will cease, but the evidence suggests that if it continues at this rate, it is very likely that by the year 2050 Nicole Kidman will look something like this: